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Jim Modney
Jim Modney

New York Times, Saturday, September 27, 1980

38-Across : Brightly colored beetle

Author:
Jim Modney
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 5.08, Missing: { V Z }, Scrabble score: 341 (avg 1.81)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 3, XRef: 1, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 9, Grid flow: 31.1
Jim Modney has 14 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,281
Across
1
Mandible : JAW
4
Explosive sound : WHAM
8
Hypothetical particle, in physics : QUARK
13
Site of the William Tell legend : URI
14
Hawaiian dance : HULA
15
Peace-prize Nobelist: 1950 : BUNCHE
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Numismatists' interests : MINTAGES
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Pasch : EASTER
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Argues illogically : BEGSTHEQUESTION
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Greek peak : OSSA
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Loosen : UNTIE
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Butted : RAMMED
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Squalid : MANGY
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Nautical direction : AFT
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Whispers sweet nothings : COOS
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Norm or printed form, in Firenze : MODULO
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Curt : BRUSQUE
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Brightly colored beetle : LADYBUG
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Small sailing ship : BARQUE
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Sport on horseback : POLO
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Word with mar or dog : SEA
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Boredom : ENNUI
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Attorney, e.g. : LEGIST
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Perfume oil : ATTAR
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Basilica area : APSE
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Parlor game : TWENTYQUESTIONS
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Less giving : HARDER
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Crustaceans called mantis shrimp : SQUILLAS
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Money, in Toledo : DINERO
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___ lang syne : AULD
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"You ___ My Lucky Star," 1935 song : ARE
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Endings with mob and gang : STERS
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Similar : LIKE
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Harrison or Ingram : REX
Down
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Huge : JUMBO
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Zodiac sign : ARIES
3
Paul McCartney's singing group : WINGS
4
"How's that again?" : WHAT
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Herbert or Downs : HUGH
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Opposite of aweather : ALEE
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Costume balls : MASQUES
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Low Sundays : QUASIMODOS
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Tipsy : UNSTEADY
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Play opening : ACTI
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Beginning for stat or meter : RHEO
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Who wrote "Who?"? : KERN
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Vegetable : BEET
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Russian leader of yore : TSAR
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German connective : UND
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Judges or juries, sometimes : ACQUITTERS
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Pout : MOUE
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A Stooge : MOE
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Gists : NUBS
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Adhesive : GLUE
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System of exercises : YOGA
31
Religious superior : ABBE
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___ Allison, colleague of puppeteer Tillstrom : FRAN
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Redirect : TURN
35
African nation bordered by Mauritania : MALI
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Waste : SQUANDER
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Part of a cord : LOG
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Examination : PERUSAL
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Shellac is one: Abbr. : LAQ
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Kind of light or gate : TAIL
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Beginner : TYRO
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Pivotal : POLAR
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Springe : SNARE
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English county : ESSEX
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Rel. degrees : THDS
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Delay : WAIT
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Relative of a fulmar : ERNE
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Word form with poise or distant : EQUI
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Grump : SULK
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Ocean movement : TIDE

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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